I have tried several solutions, but none seemed to solve my problem. I have several text areas that each require multiple carriage returns. But I am trying to replace those carriage returns with a 'symbol' and then of course have the script (and other scripts that use the information) turn the 'symbol' into line break. The info is part of a large pipe delimited database. I can't have the returns in the database obviously, but I DO want them to appear in any HTML pages which are based on all of the info in the database. Some of the textareas may include double returns such as a paragraph.